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Nip-29 is on the horizon, promising to reduce our reliance on group communication tools like Slack and Telegram.

I envision it as a straightforward and user-friendly solution, including the deployment of a Nip-29 relay. With Nip-29, you’ll be able to join relays to discuss topics that interest you. Moderation features will be available, allowing for the possibility of being banned. However, this isn’t a significant issue—if your voice isn’t welcomed somewhere, you can easily set up your own relay with your preferred groups. This process will be accessible to users of all experience levels.

This is the driving force behind Seer. I’m starting with native apps for Apple platforms because I believe that using platform-specific tools and frameworks yields the best results. My goal is to create applications that seamlessly integrate with the platform they run on.

Stay tuned for updates—Seer development is progressing well.
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Ademan 1y ago

Can't clients enforce the moderation rules? For public groups, where everyone can see the posts, you don't actually need relay cooperation do you?

A NIP-29 aware relay could restrict event delivery to group members, and provide some privacy, as a value add, though. I'm not sure how inclined I am to trust such a relay to never leak, and since nostr events are non-repudiable, all it takes is one mole to ruin privacy.

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ismyhc 1y ago

Initially the focus is on public groups, but I understand your concern in terms of private groups. We will tackle that after getting a good public experience.

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Ademan 1y ago

I'm actually more interested in public groups too.

My question is just: Do you really need a NIP-29-aware relay at all, for public groups?

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ismyhc 1y ago

Yes I believe so because if you look at nip29 you can see it adds some of the basic building blocks like groups, group members, moderation kinds, etc. Seer aims to simply do group communication, so it’s much easier to just subscribe to these specific kinds without having sift through all the other stuff.